View allAll Photos Tagged switch
This train of cars went back an forth across this road crossing 3 times on Friday afternoon rush hour as it navigated tracks.
A pair of leased Geeps crawl through an alley with a cut of empty waste cars for New York Waste Management on the Bushwick branch. Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
A pair of Iowa Northern GP38s switch the yard in Mannly, Iowa seen here pulling through the car reader near Harris Street. It is weird to think that the Iowa Northern is now a fallen flag and gobbled up by the Canadian National.
Mass Coastal 2008 is seen departing Maritime Terminal Inc. in New Bedford, MA after switching out the load for the empty.
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
A CSXT local switches Kayne Ave on March 9, 2019. The days of an end cab switcher on CSX are numbered.
© Eric T. Hendrickson 2019 All Rights Reserved
Delaware-Lackawanna Job PO-74 switches out the cars they picked up earlier from NS as DL3 to assemble the train they would be taking up the Poconos. This task ended up taking way longer than it should have because they apparently were asked by the secret service to clear out the yard of any freight cars as a "security measure" in anticipation of Sleepy Uncle Amtrak Joe's visit to Steamtown the next day.
Side note: the prominent building in the background, which now serves as a Radisson Hotel, was the passenger station for the Lackawanna Railroad in Scranton. 10-19-21
The other day I was creating with some friends and was a bit lost in my own mind.
I started thinking of how creative my friends are, how creative this community is and how I'm so lucky to have a job and passion and life where I get to share very openly, the inner workings of my mind. The inside of who I am as a person through my work. I came up with this idea of my "inner workings" spinning away above my head, like a hamster on a wheel.
#thelightbulbproject_inside
Two rarities in 21st century railroading - an active interlocking tower and an end-cab switcher - converge at the north end of Washington's Union Station. K Tower is alive and well guarding the throat of the terminal and the surrounding area, while Amtrak's switcher fleet is kept busy pulling cuts of cars in and out of Washington's largely stub-ended terminal.
PHL YPSW14-27, the 1400 Switcher crew, switches out a cut of autoracks at Wilmington, CA. Powering this job is a unique Caterpiller repower, on lease from Progress Rail. Its black and gold livery matches the autoracks nicely.
Those of you who follow my work know I have a thing for shooting freight under wire. Well this past Thursday I got a tip that CSXT Middleboro based daytime local B727 would be making a relatively uncommon move that was long on my wish list to shoot. B727 runs five days per week between Middleboro and Attleboro on the MassDOT owned and Mass Coastal maintained and dispatched Middleboro Subdivision serving customers and interchanging with the MC along the way.
On Thursdays they normally sneak out on to Amtrak's NEC main at BORO interlockong for a two and half mile shove west down Track 4 to East Junction to work a couple customers on that historic bit of trackage that I've written about in this caption: flic.kr/p/2jck93J
But there is one other customer in the area that every once in a while gets a switch. And on this day after shoving out they reversed direction and ran east a mile to a short twisting lead splitting off just short of Holden interlocking. This lead reaches down into the building of Polyfiber Inc. a subsidiary of Holland Manufacturing makers of industrial packaging, specialty coated and laminated products, water activated tapes and other products.
B726 has run the mile west with three cars trailing three GP40-2s. Just short of Holden they stopped and made two trips down and back on the lead to pull one empty and spot one load before shoving back east through Attleboro station toward East Junction. They are seen here pulling out of the building with three geeps to head back to the Amtrak mainline at MP 198.
Attleboro, Massachusetts
Thursday January 14, 2021
On Houston's northside, UP 680 switches scrap gons out of Commercial Metals at Tower 71 on the West Belt. After wrapping up their work, they'll swing around the corner at Tower 26 nearby to head back to the bottom end of Settegast Yard.
The green signal to the left is a lineup for the Big Boy, which will be passing through in a few minutes on its way to the top end of Settegast Yard.
YHO50R 04
UP GP38N #680
Houston, TX
October 4th, 2024
Just another view from the East Randall Wobbe Ln. crossing into little five track yard north of town where the Arkansas and Missouri Railroad classifies its traffic.
This is train SFLO (the Springdale local) which was on duty at 11 AM with this pair of classic Alco C420s, numbers 56 and 57 both built for the Lehigh and Hudson River Railroad in Dec. 1965 as their numbers 25 and 26 respectively. They are seen here kicking up dust in the sand coated yard near MP 341.9 (measured from the Frisco's historic corporate headquarters city of St. Louis).
To learn more check out the long caption with this shot: flic.kr/p/2mmJMoD
Springdale, Arkansas
Thursday September 2, 2021
A square-cabed Geep trundles down the overgrown spur to WCO Enterprises to retrieve an empty wax car off of CSX's now decommissioned Export yard. With the adoption of precision scheduled railroading, all jobs from Export yard are now originating from Moncrief and have been consolidated into fewer and fewer locals. The customers around Export yard largely remain. Portside Paper has vacated its space and moved to a different warehouse up the line, still receiving cars at its new location. Manson Construction's service ended after enough rock for the St. johns dredging project was delivered. Owens Corning had discontinued limestone deliveries a few years ago but still gets asphalt service. Steelcon Supply hasn't gotten a car in a few months to a year but continues to be in business it appears. That leaves Export yard with WCO (pictured here), Jones Chemicals, a Crowley transload (tomato paste boxcars), Owens Corning (asphalt only), Lehigh Cement, and potentially but not certainly the occasional service to Steelcon Supply.
Below are some photos of the customers that have disappeared:
Portside Paper, relocated and still serviced in Yulee, FL:
www.flickr.com/photos/henry_dell/15445579949/in/photolist...
Owens Corning Roofing, switched to trucks at several facilities across the US with limestone shipments:
www.flickr.com/photos/henry_dell/14510986414/in/album-721...
Steelcon Supply, may or may not get service still - hasn't gotten a car in months:
www.flickr.com/photos/henry_dell/14512630714/in/album-721...
www.flickr.com/photos/henry_dell/28915284395/in/album-721...
Manson Construction, reactived its spur for about a year to receive rock for dredging project:
www.flickr.com/photos/henry_dell/22147836598/in/album-721...
www.flickr.com/photos/henry_dell/23119879146/in/album-721...
A pair of Prairie Line's locomotives switch Archer Daniel's Midland in Clinton Iowa NBH photo 10/16/2024
On the Montana City branch just east of Helena, the 840 local drops a healthy cut of 2 bays at a sand facility. In the distance the Big Belt Mountains stand tall above the high plains east of the Montana state capital.
MRL 840 Local (Helena Local)
MRL GP9 #109
MRL SD40-2XR #252
East Helena, MT
May 4th, 2022
Pan Am Railways PORU switches out cars at the feed mill in N. Leeds, ME. Three blue dip Geeps were a treat on this dreary February day.
CSXT's L13605 is at Suburban Propane in Woodensburg MD along the Hanover Sub. The local has cars for the customer and likewise, the customer has cars for the local. Once finished, the crew will continue east to Emory Grove and run around the cars, then head back west to Hanover PA. The train's power today is GP38-2 2561-a former Seaboard Coast Line unit from 1972 while the other unit is GP39-2 4302- a former Reading Lines unit conveyed to CSXT via D&H.
Kodak Ektachrome E100
Retina lllC
On one end of Fallison lake is this gorgeous little bog and I thought it was looking particularly nice even in the harsh light.
Bringing train 664 into Overbrook, 642 makes another autumn appearance on the Keystone Corridor. MOW is hard at work replacing a switch as part of a weekend project.
CSX switching crew dismount to reset the switch after the train passes off the siding onto the main line preparing to head to Raleigh.
SFG Train 565-11 has cut away from the rest of the train and will shortly start working the Groupe-Lebel lumber mill in Nouvelle-Ouest, Quebec.
The lumber mill is one of only a few customers on the Cascapedia Subdivision and ships outbound loads of lumber and woodchips.
Société du chemin de fer de la Gaspésie
Train: 565-11
12/11/2023
Nouvelle-Ouest, Quebec
SFG Cascapedia Subdivision
By 1996 the former Quad City Rocket has been demoted to just the "Rocket" and is switching cars at Crystal Lake in the village of Crescent, southwest of Pekin Illinois. Copyright © Revenge Photography. All Rights Reserved.
HESR 8802 switches Georgia Pacific on the west side Owosso as a lite rain/mist falls on a rather nasty January night. As a kid i used to watch 8802, 8804 and the other CMGN and HESR units switch this line over the years. With the Railamerica take over by G&W and all their repainting & moving of power, it is really nice to see this engine working Owosso. 8802 and the 4 former HESR GP38's are the only ones left on the HESR that have not been renumbered or repainted. It is only a matter of time.